There's a Shikamaru novel where the villain is upset that ninja are outnumbered and ruled over by normal people, fight and die in wars for them. and that people as powerful as Naruto and Madara are unknown to the common man, and believes that ninja should be the ones to rule. Shikamaru almost agrees with him, but decides to stop him and uphold the status quo anyway because his friends (Naruto and Temari) exist in that status quo.














